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Nov. 12th, 2009
Had We Never Loved by Patricia Veryan
Nov. 12th, 2009 08:28 pmA Georgian romance (I guess I was mistaken when I thought Veryan wrote mostly Regencies?), this is a part of a series, but I think a different series from The Riddle of the Deplorable Dandy, the only other Veryan I’ve read. Unfortunately, it’s also a lot less accessible.
The ongoing plotline involves a group of friends who are trying to find and expose a group of traitors known as the League of the Jewelled Men. Most references to them are made under the understandable assumption that you read the previous books and are familiar with the events being talked about. There’s a lot of the core characters running around and trying to find out what’s up with them.
The contained plotline is about Lord Glendenning, one of the friends opposing the Jeweled Men who gets caught up in several schemes involving a gypsy girl named Amy Consett, until an injury leaves him recovering in the care of Amy and her uncle. Meanwhile, Glendenning was also a Jacobite (which is rather interesting, as I get the feeling this is a “Save the crown!” series) and while his friends are looking for him, his Scottish stepmother is targeted by an official looking for Jacobites to arrest as traitors.
The romance was entertaining, though not as much so as the one in TRotDD, but I was a lot more interested in Glendenning’s friends and family and the spies and traitors plots, even though I didn’t fully understand everything without having read previous installments.
The ongoing plotline involves a group of friends who are trying to find and expose a group of traitors known as the League of the Jewelled Men. Most references to them are made under the understandable assumption that you read the previous books and are familiar with the events being talked about. There’s a lot of the core characters running around and trying to find out what’s up with them.
The contained plotline is about Lord Glendenning, one of the friends opposing the Jeweled Men who gets caught up in several schemes involving a gypsy girl named Amy Consett, until an injury leaves him recovering in the care of Amy and her uncle. Meanwhile, Glendenning was also a Jacobite (which is rather interesting, as I get the feeling this is a “Save the crown!” series) and while his friends are looking for him, his Scottish stepmother is targeted by an official looking for Jacobites to arrest as traitors.
The romance was entertaining, though not as much so as the one in TRotDD, but I was a lot more interested in Glendenning’s friends and family and the spies and traitors plots, even though I didn’t fully understand everything without having read previous installments.